SB 2.3.8
TEXT 8
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TEXT
धर्मार्थ उत्तमश्लोकं तन्तुः तन्वन्पितॄन्यजेत् ।
रक्षाकामः पुण्यजनान् ओजस्कामो मरुद्गणान् ॥ ८ ॥ dharmartha uttama-slokam
tantuḥ tanvan pitṝn yajet
raksa-kamaḥ punya-janan
ojas-kamo marud-ganan
dharma-arthaḥ-for spiritual advancement; uttama-slokam-the Supreme Lord or persons attached to the Supreme Lord; tantuḥ-for offspring; tanvan-and for their protection; pitṝn-the residents of the Pitrloka; yajet-must worship; raksa-kamaḥ-one who desires protection; punya-janan-pious persons; ojas-kamaḥ-one who desires strength should worship; marud-ganan-the demigods.
TRANSLATION
One should worship Lord Visnu or His devotee for spiritual advancement of knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of the dynasty one should worship the different demigods.
The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Visnu in His impersonal effulgence, localized Paramatma feature, and ultimately in His personal feature by spiritual advancement of knowledge. And one who wants to establish a good dynasty and be happy in the progress of temporary bodily relations should take shelter of the pitas and the demigods in other pious planets. Such different classes of worshipers of different demigods may ultimately reach the respective planets within the universe, but he who reaches the spiritual planets in the brahmajyoti achieves the highest perfection.
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